Kremlin Mouthpieces

А russian-American media figure who plays an important role in the pro-kremlin propaganda network.
Previously, he worked as a producer of the CrossTalk program on RT, where he contributed to the creation of editorial content in support of the kremlin's russian foreign policy narratives.
In 2016, Rodzianko co-founded The Duran, a far-right, conspiracy-based media platform that systematically reinforces the views of the russian government by undermining Western democracies and institutions, promoting russian narratives on Ukraine, NATO, and COVID-19, as well as attacks on American political figures and unsubstantiated conspiracy content. The platform copies materials from RT, Sputnik, and the Foundation for Strategic Culture and is widely cited by fact-checkers and media observers as a disinformation resource linked to russian state media and intelligence interests.
Rodzianko is also the founder of the e-commerce site Orthodox Depot, which claims to donate 40% of purchases to the Saint Sergius russian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, Ohio.

She is a veteran of media operations in the state propaganda infrastructure of Iran and russia.
Since 2014, she has been working as a correspondent for the Iranian state-run Press TV in Moscow, and in 2019 was appointed as the bureau chief. Her reporting has covered more than a decade of major geopolitical events, including russia's invasion of Ukraine, bilateral initiatives between russia and Iran, the BRICS and Eurasia summits, and the Syria peace talks.
Her assignments and programs are correlated with the strategic priorities of the kremlin and the Iranian Islamic Republican Broadcasting Company (IRIB). Fluent in both the language and ideological positioning expected of state media, Kortunova plays a key role in laundering narratives, presenting russian actions as humanitarian, Iranian goals as peaceful, and Western responses as imperialistic.
In addition, Kortunova's reporting is characterized by glorifying russia as a peacemaker, discrediting the Ukrainian government, systematically presenting fabricated or falsified poll data (for example, about support for the referendum at a level of over 80%), and quoting only kremlin-approved analysts.
Kortunova was involved in the launch of RT Arabic and has reported from the field for several speakers in the Gulf countries who hold authoritarian or anti-Western positions.
On September 27, 2022, she wrote a press release describing the referendums on russia's annexation of Ukraine as democratic and justified. Her report repeated kremlin narratives of "historical justice" and positioned NATO as a threat.
In 2024, she authored a report on the so-called "NATO exhibition," a Moscow exposition of Western military equipment allegedly captured in Ukraine for the French media. In Kortunova's report, aimed at discrediting Western military aid to Ukraine, the exhibition was positioned as "putin's mockery of the West."
Also in September 2022, she wrote a press release promoting cooperation between russia and Iran in order to "nullify sanctions" and replace dollar trade. It quoted Lavrov and Iranian officials as calling for alternative mechanisms to circumvent Western sanctions.

He is known as a producer and director of documentaries that promote pro-kremlin narratives and present a kremlin-friendly version of events in Ukraine, in collaboration with American director Oliver Stone.
He is the director of the films "Maidan Massacre" (2014), "Ukraine on Fire" (2016), and "Revealing Ukraine" (2019), as well as "Ukraine: The Everlasting Present" (2021), which portray the Revolution of Dignity as a nationalist coup organized by the United States.
His works also include interviews with pro-russian figures, including putin and Viktor Yanukovych, and justify russian aggression in Ukraine.
He has also been involved in projects aimed at spreading pro-russian videos online, including a 2023 project called "To russia with Love," which aimed to convince Westerners to move to russia and was reportedly funded by a foundation established by putin.
He initiated the filming of hagiographic films about authoritarian leaders, including those of Belarus and Azerbaijan, promising to strengthen their reputation on the world stage. This demonstrates his role in creating content that serves to legitimize authoritarian regimes and aligns with the kremlin's interests.
He is a member of the board of the American organization Christian Orthodox Coalition, which is associated with russian influence operations in the United States.
Through his company Global Tree Pictures, he has created content characterized as pro-kremlin propaganda for figures such as Rudy Giuliani, Kash Patel and Tucker Carlson.

A russian propagandist who actively supports the aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, systematically promotes kremlin narratives, calling the occupied territories of Ukraine "part of russia" and justifying russia's war against Ukraine, and makes a large number of stories about the war in the TOT of Ukraine.
He is known as the author of the Telegram channel "Romanov Light" with more than 136 thousand subscribers, through which he distributes propaganda content, including his own photos and videos from the front, glorifying the russian military and discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine, calling them "Nazis" and claiming that villages and cities have fallen under the control of russian troops, sometimes referring to "enemy resources" to confirm the information.
In May 2025, he filmed and posted on his Telegram channel a video from the Crimean Bridge after the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was later actively disseminated by russian propaganda media.
He calls to provide the addresses of Ukrainian territorial recruitment centers and coordinates for strikes through the Telegram bot "Romanov Light", promising "results" and "complete anonymity". This call is aimed at gathering intelligence to organize attacks on Ukrainian TRCs, which is a direct support of russia's subversive activities and a threat to Ukraine's national security.
He also actively raises funds for the needs of the russian army through the Telegram channel "Romanov SUPPORT FOR THE FRONT", where he posts details for donations and subsequent reports on the purchase of medical equipment, ATVs, etc. for the russian military.
He has received awards from enemy military units.
He resides in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, has also repeatedly visited the active combat zone in eastern and southern Ukraine, and documents his presence in the temporarily occupied Siverskodonetsk, Luhansk region (March 2023), and Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region (June 2024).
In April 2023, he released a video from the Polohivskyi district, Zaporizhia region, where he personally takes part in a combat episode and launches a strike from the russian anti-tank missile system "Kornet" at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, demonstrating direct combat participation in the war on the side of the occupation forces.

He plays a central role in the work of the russian media project "InfoDefense", created on the initiative of russian military commander Yuri Podolyaka, which systematically disseminates pro-kremlin narratives in different languages through a network of Telegram channels, includes multilingual translation capabilities, and is an integral part of a wide network of pro-kremlin Telegram channels created to reinforce russian narratives on a global scale.
The content disseminated by the InfoDefense network under Chernyshev's direct supervision is characterized by distortion of events and disinformation about the war in Ukraine, active use of the hashtag #StopHatingrussians, and the formation of international public opinion convenient and favorable to the kremlin.
The proliferation of InfoDefense content on russian diplomatic social media pages indicates a systematic and coordinated information campaign and further emphasizes its role in supporting official russian state communication and influencing foreign efforts.

He is an active russian propagandist, military commander, employee of the occupation structures and an important media intermediary closely associated with illegal armed groups and the russian authorities.
His activities include spreading propaganda through Telegram, VK, Rutube, Facebook, TikTok, as well as numerous thematic channels and groups, legitimizing the occupation of Ukrainian territories, in particular Donbas, creating an image of the "heroic struggle" of russian soldiers and units of the so-called "LPR". He actively covered the battles near Avdiivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Popasna and Kreminna, deliberately providing false information about the course of hostilities, forming the necessary propaganda narratives, and portraying russian war crimes as "achievements".
He was also notable for his activities as a member of the Permanent Commission on Interaction with the Media of the Presidential Council for Cossack Affairs, which brings together the heads of leading russian public and private media, including Gazprom-Media, russia Today, Channel One, VGTRK, Ren-TV, LIFE, Rambler, Komsomolskaya Pravda and others. Lisitsyn take part in Comission as the editor-in-chief of the ZOV TV news agency, which indicates his high level of integration into the kremlin's information policy system and personal ties to the top leadership of propaganda structures.
Organizes fundraisers for the needs of militants and the russian army through public appeals on Telegram and is engaged in logistics through the Nasha Pravda Foundation, including the supply of drones, thermal imagers, first aid kits, etc. to the front.
In addition, he cooperates with the project "People's Front. Everything for Victory" project, where he also raises funds for the needs of the russian military.
He is actively involved in mobilization campaigns among the population of the occupied territories of Ukraine, calling for them to join the ranks of combat units, including the units of the illegal armed formation "Luhansk Cossack District of the SKVRiZ" under the leadership of his father.

She is an active participant in the information support of russian aggression against Ukraine, is noted for systematically spreading anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, publicly justifying russian war crimes and covering life in the occupied territories and events on the front line from a pro-kremlin position.
Before russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she worked for local TV channels in Mariupol and repeatedly expressed her pro-Ukrainian position on its occupation.
Later, she began to create content aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian military and disseminating distorted information about the events that took place during the battle for Mariupol, including through her own social media accounts.
She played a key role in the creation of the author's propaganda film about Azovstal, in which she claimed that the Ukrainian military allegedly "forcibly held" civilians in basements.
Thanks to her anti-Ukrainian propaganda, she built a career in the russian media space and in October 2024 became a member of the russian Union of Journalists.

russian propagandist and war correspondent for the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad TV and the official TV channel of the russian Orthodox Church, Spas.
Since 2014, he has been covering the russian invasion, systematically broadcasting disinformation aimed at justifying the invasion, discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and delegitimizing the Ukrainian government.
He is the author and producer of the propaganda documentary Heart of a Warrior, which includes interviews with russian soldiers, officers, volunteers and military chaplains.
He collaborates with the project "People's Front. Everything for victory" project and raises funds for the needs of the russian military.
He also organizes fundraising for the needs of the russian armed forces through his own Telegram channel "Afanasyev Z", providing direct material support to the war.
In addition, Afanasyev is a co-author of the Telegram channel "Military Department of the Moscow Patriarchate" - the official channel of the Synodal Department for Interaction with the russian armed forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, which indicates Afanasyev's deep integration into the efforts of the russian Orthodox Church to support russian military efforts, as well as his active support for the activities of the russian Orthodox Church in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Afanasyev is also one of the founders of the russian Community, a russian far-right, nationalist pro-government organization that has created a network of informants who organize police raids on migrants who are then forcibly conscripted into the russian armed forces.
Since 2022, he has illegally entered the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine to create propaganda materials and acted as a guide for foreign propagandists.
He regularly appears as an expert for political media in russia and abroad. He has repeatedly criticized the image of russia in the West as "anti-russian propaganda" in Western media, including the British BBC and the Australian ABC, and defended the integrity of the elections in russia and putin's leadership.
Since 2024, he has been a member of the Commission on Church Administration, Pastoral Care and Organization of Church Life, as well as the Commission on Public Life, Culture, Science and Information of the Inter-Conciliar Presence of the russian Orthodox Church.

He is a well-known russian political strategist, publicist and author of propaganda materials that actively promote the narratives of the russian authorities to justify aggression against Ukraine. His activities are systematic, which indicates his deliberate participation in russia's hybrid war against Ukraine on the information front.
He is the author of the books "The Fate of the Empire. russian View of European Civilization", "The World Crisis. East and West in the New Century" and "The Fate of the Empire", as well as co-author of the book "The Ideology of russian Statehood", which is Sergeytsev's main work as part of his membership in the Zinoviev Club, an expert community for promoting the "fair image of russia" and its ideological and political influence in the international space.
He is the author of the articles "What kind of Ukraine we do not need" (2021) and "What russia should do with Ukraine" and "Why the West is afraid of denazification of Ukraine" (April 2022), published on the state resource RIA Novosti, which became a benchmark example of aggressive anti-Ukrainian propaganda. In these materials, Sergeytsev openly denies Ukraine's right to exist as a separate state and calls for its "denazification" and "de-Ukrainization". The articles caused international outrage due to their open calls for the destruction of Ukrainian national identity, which, in fact, constitutes an ideological justification for genocide.
Sergeytsev is also actively involved in public commentary on events, using the platforms of state-owned russian TV channels and publications, including Izvestia, RT, and RIA Novosti, where he promotes narratives about russia's alleged "liberation mission" in Ukraine.
His materials are actively replicated by russian media and Telegram channels in the russian-language information space, which ensures a wide resonance and direct influence on the formation of anti-Ukrainian public opinion in russia and among pro-russian audiences abroad.
In 2012, he co-produced and co-authored the script for the russian feature film "Match", which was recognized by the Ukrainian State Film Agency as propaganda and banned in 2014.